Category: Plant Physiology

Scott Hayes, S.hayes@cnb.csic.es The adoption of Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant in the early 1980s led to a revolution in plant molecular genetics. Its diminutive size, rapid generation time and small genome made Arabidopsis a fantastic tool, allowing us to build a complex picture of the genetic…

Zhen Wang, co-first author of Two Chloroplast Proteins Negatively Regulate Plant Drought Resistance Through Separate Pathways Current Position: Research Associate, Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Education: Ph.D. in Genetics, Shanghai Institutes for Biological…

Yechun Hong, co-first author of Two Chloroplast Proteins Negatively Regulate Plant Drought Resistance Through Separate Pathways Current position: Ph.D. student, Shanghai center for plant stress biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Education: B.S., School of life science, Sun Yat-Sen University Non-scientific…

Erika Őszi, first author of E2FB interacts with RETINOBLASTOMA RELATED and regulates cell proliferation during leaf development Current Position: Ph.D. student in the lab of Dr. Zoltán Magyar at the Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary Education: PhD and MSc in plant biology, BSc in molecular…

Geng Ding, co-first author of Non-catalytic subunits facilitate quaternary organization of plastidic acetyl-CoA carboxylase Current Position: Assistant Scientist, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University Education: Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental…

Kiran-Kumar Shivaiah, co-first author of Non-catalytic subunits facilitate quaternary organization of plastidic acetyl-CoA carboxylase Current Position: Research Associate, Plant Resilience Institute, Michigan State University Education: Ph.D. in Biochemistry (Iowa State University), M.Sc in Biochemistry…

Muhammad Uzair, first author of PERSISTENT TAPETAL CELL 2 is required for normal tapetal programmed cell death and pollen wall patterning Current Position: Research Assistant (University of Hong Kong) Education: M.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture Biotechnology, Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology…

Raimund Nagel Universität Leipzig Department of Plant Physiology Leipzig, Saxony 04103 Germany raimund.nagel@uni-leipzig.de Dalmatian chrysanthemum (Tanacetum cinerariifolium) contains pyrethrins, which are highly effective natural insecticides that are nontoxic to most animals and biodegradable.…